Backend
Infrastructure
Level2 Apps
Software Engineering Tools/Processes
Misc / Buzz words
100

This enables data transmission between one software product and another

What is an API?
100

Level2's single sign on identity provider (IDP)

What is One Health Care ID?

100

The source of truth for member information, eligibility, enrollment status and Level2 shipments and support tickets

What is Salesforce?

100

Level2's code hosting platform for version control and collaboration

What is GitHub?

100

The service through the Internet. These resources include tools and applications like data storage, servers, databases, networking, and software without having to buy your own hardware

What is the Cloud? (AWS, GCP, Azure)

200

A process where the tech team releases a new product feature for users

What is a Production Deployment?

200

Level2's main database used for all backend applications

What is Helium?

200

The tool used by coaches to view their vision, chat and CGM data

What is the Coaching Portal?


200

An event that takes place in software development when a contributor/developer is ready to merge their new code changes (user story) with the main project repository 

What is a pull request?

200

code that is designed to be publicly accessible—anyone can see, modify, and distribute the code as they see fit

What is Open Source?

300

An environment for testing that exactly resembles a production environment and requires a different set of sign on credentials

What is non-prod? 

300

The world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform and what Level2's infrastructure is built on

What is AWS?

300

The application used by the virtual clinic to render care and see members (medications, labs, diagnosis)

What is Athena?

300

A pipeline that automates your software delivery process to production

What is CI/CD (Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery) or Deployment Pipeline? - Level2 uses Azure DevOps


300

a free and open-source front-end library for building user interfaces based on UI components. It is maintained by Meta (formerly Facebook) and a community of individual developers and companies. (Front end technology behind the coaching portal)

What is React?

400

the continuous flow of data generated by various sources to other systems, processed in order asyncronously. (e.g. day trading)

What is data streaming?

400

The service used to send data to reporting / google cloud platform from Level2's database to keep data in sync

What is google pubsub?

400

Level2's centralized scheduling platform

What is Skedulo?

400

a group of collaborators, typically between five and nine individuals, who work toward completing and delivering software products


What is a scrum team?

400

The use and development of computer systems that are able to learn and adapt without following explicit instructions, by using algorithms and statistical models to analyze and draw inferences from patterns in data.

What is Machine Learning? (AI is acceptable)

500

A technical specification of sending data from one system to another used by engineers (e.g. posting an instagram photo on facebook)

What is an API Spec?

500

A product which provides programmable communication tools for making and receiving phone calls, sending and receiving text messages, and performing other communication functions using its web service APIs (Level2's chat provider)

What is Twilio?

500

The area in athena that allows the virtual clinic to view the member's coaching portal record

What is the App Tab?

500

A way of testing the smallest piece of code that can be logically isolated in a system

What is a unit test?

500

A unique digital identifier that cannot be copied, substituted, or subdivided, that is recorded in a blockchain, and that is used to certify authenticity and ownership

What is a NFT? (Non-fungible token)